What is xAI, Elon Musk’s new AI company, and will it succeed?
13 July 2023
Elon Musk has announced a new venture called xAI that plans to “understand the true nature of the universe”. Here’s what we know so far
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What is going on with Twitter and should I move to Bluesky instead?
7 May 2023
As the Elon Musk era of Twitter continues to throw up bugs and controversies, some people are looking at alternatives. The invite-only Bluesky is the latest challenger, but does it have staying power?
Chinese spy balloon: Everything we know after US recovers wreckage
10 February 2023
The US has recovered the wreckage of a Chinese surveillance balloon after shooting it down with a fighter jet last week – here's what has been discovered and what it might mean
Meta's Galactica AI can write scientific papers, but is it any good?
18 November 2022
An artificial intelligence from Facebook owner Meta that is designed to write scientific research papers and Wikipedia articles has attracted criticism over its accuracy and public access has been removed
Ethereum Merge: What will the radical update mean for cryptocurrency?
13 September 2022
The electricity consumption of the Ethereum cryptocurrency rivals that of some countries, but a controversial update to how it works will slash this by 99 per cent – here's the low-down on what's going on
Why do AIs keep creating nightmarish images of strange characters?
13 September 2022
Image-generating AIs seem to produce mythical characters that look consistently recognisable – but their appearance has a rational explanation
If cryptocurrencies are unhackable, how do they keep getting stolen?
5 August 2022
News of a $190 million cryptocurrency theft emerged this week, despite cryptocurrencies being designed to be unhackable. Here's the low-down on what is going on and how safe bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies are
Has Google's LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?
13 June 2022
Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, has claimed that the firm's LaMDA artificial intelligence is sentient, but the expert consensus is that this is not the case
Are the world's most powerful supercomputers operating in secret?
6 June 2022
A supercomputer called Frontier has been officially crowned as the world's first exascale computer – one capable of a billion billion operations per second – but more powerful machines may be out there
Are period-tracking apps still safe to use in the US post Roe v Wade?
9 May 2022
Some period-tracking apps share data with third parties. With the rolling back of Roe v Wade abortion protections in the US, there is concern that data collected by these apps could become incriminating
